Example sentences of "told me [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During a recent visit to an old people 's home , the officer in charge told me of the efforts she had to make to prevent the local children from taunting and mocking the residents-often through the windows . |
| 2 | He told me of the way the rivers were kept permanently netted for fish , of the illnesses associated with la Sologne , and of its politics . |
| 3 | He later told me of the adventure he had walking round the high netting accompanied by an airman on the other side of the wire . |
| 4 | Bill Riffkind , a close friend of Sam 's , later told me of the fight . |
| 5 | The boy found me at the sweet shop across the street , and told me of the drama . |
| 6 | He said he was a reporter and he told me of the death of the King , the news had just come through . |
| 7 | One banking employee told me of the demise of her bank branch . |
| 8 | And told me of the fraternising between British and German troops on Christmas day in the trenches , and I could n't understand at first how you could shoot at someone all week , then make friends with them for one day , knowing you would try and kill each other again the next . |
| 9 | Later , over dinner , Mrs Knelle spiritedly told me of the sensation around Lough Corrib when President Reagan had stayed at Ashford Castle . |
| 10 | Allie told me on the phone that Ted fed her , coming in and saying , ' 'Ere , Marge , have a nice bit of fish with some bread and butter . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ So you told me on the phone . ’ |
| 12 | No , she to she told me on the phone . |
| 13 | This is going to be more or less in line with what erm you told me on the phone anyway is n't it ? |
| 14 | Douglas now your background here is mainly erm er retail face to face but I can also read into and what er this and what you told me on the phone that there 's erm quote a lot of sales as well . |
| 15 | He told me on the phone that Dawn will be leaving in a fortnight 's time and they have n't found a veterinary nurse to take her place . |
| 16 | Tremayne came to collect me from the hospital afterwards and told me on the way to Shellerton that Mackie had got through the court ordeal bravely . |
| 17 | As a matter of fact , one of the men from Scotland Yard , a very nice inspector , told me on the way out that the whole thing was a waste of time as far as he was concerned . |
| 18 | You know what he told me on the way home ? |
| 19 | They told me on the 'phone that you were not wounded . |
| 20 | I could n't get it out of them who had paid for her , but old Alex the cleaner told me on the side : Boswell , Slim Boswell . ’ |
| 21 | An elderly English lady , with a tendency to pre-war propriety , who told me on the Friday that she was afraid it would all be ‘ another load of pretentious American rubbish ’ , said on Sunday that she had learned to open up for the first time in her life . |
| 22 | Yeah , cos we was there in the August , they were n't , we moved in , in the July , there , and the girls were , Matthew was just four , cos just as we moved in our dad took Matthew to Hungary with him , it was like , it was like they were going on the following Wednesday , and he told me on the Friday , he came in on the Friday night , they planned , it was our dad , Crystal and Danielle , Crystal and Danielle , but she said even if I go out in the middle of . |
| 23 | The man told me on the telly that is the best so |
| 24 | It 's difficult to explain , but a part of me never really believed I should see her again , even after what they told me at the theatre . |
| 25 | ‘ They told me at the desk downstairs that you were here . ’ |
| 26 | Yes , indeed , they told me at the tabac , the old building had stood until a year or so ago . |
| 27 | I was still very pleased , however , when the statistician Ian Hodge told me at the end of the year that I had moved from being 156th in the world 100 metres ranking list in 1985 to 4th in 1986 ! |
| 28 | ‘ She was dynamic , had tremendous energy and was thoroughly decisive , ’ Bramall told me at the launch of a book , The Chiefs , which he has written with Gen Sir William Jackson . |
| 29 | They told me at the hospital that you 've worked with him in the past , so I thought you might be able to help me with my general enquiries . ’ |
| 30 | Sitting in Casey 's office with a group of people sometime in the autumn of 1985 , John McMahon , his deputy , suddenly said : ‘ You wo n't believe what Bud McFarlane just told me at the White House . ’ |